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- Fors Brandebo, Maria, 1979-
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Military Leaders and Trust
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The aim of this thesis is to study trust in military leaders. Empirical data was gathered through interviews and questionnaires with military personnel mostly from Sweden, but also from four other European countries.Paper I illustrates that trust in military leaders can be theoretically understood in terms of a hierarchical system of categories, higher-level categories and two superior categories labelled Individual-related and Communication- and relationship-related characteristics.Paper II examines how trust between military leaders and their subordinates is related to negative critical incidents in international operations. The results show that trust can be affected by pre-existing influences, of both an individual and contextual nature. The level of trust that develops between leaders and subordinates appears to have an influence on perceptions and re-evaluations of leaders’ trustworthiness during and after involvement in critical incidents.In Paper III, an instrument, Destrudo-L, was developed to measure destructive leadership behaviours on five different dimensions: Arrogant, unfair, Threats, punishments, overdemands, Ego-oriented, false, Passive, cowardly, and Uncertain, unclear, messy.In Paper IV the relationship between constructive and destructive leadership behaviours and trust is examined. The results show that constructive leadership contributed most to trust in the immediate supervisor. A great deal of trust in immediate supervisors can be understood by evaluating both constructive and destructive leadership behaviours.This thesis contributes with context-specific knowledge on trust in leaders in a military context and knowledge of psychological processes and individual dispositions that shape and change the willingness to trust leaders. The main findings presented in this thesis are the identification of characteristics of the trustor, the trustee, and the context which influences trust in military leaders.
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- Nilsson, Sofia, 1975-, et al.
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A Civil Contingencies Agency Management System for Disaster Aid : Qualitative Validation of an Empirically Grounded Model
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In: International Journal of Organizational Analysis. - : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 1934-8835 .- 1758-8561. ; 21:2, s. 154-175
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Purpose – The aim of this article is twofold: (1) validation of a theoretical model of a civil contingencies agency management system, and (2) methodological development by employing qualitative means for analysis.Design/methodology/approach – The theoretical model to be validated serves as a starting point for a qualitative reanalysis of logic-deductive character, aimed at verification of the pre-existing theory that is already discovered and developed. Data from three previously published case studies was used as a frame of reference.Findings – The theoretical model of a civil contingencies management system for disaster aid is validated in most respects. The qualitative testing for high trustworthiness proved reasonable with regard to selected reference studies. Research limitations/implications – Qualitative testing techniques will not attain equally large-scale samples as quantitative methods. The process of model validation provides an alternative to more traditional quantitative approaches.Practical implications - The model validation contributes to evidence-based knowledge concerning critical factors for success when managing large and complex aid and rescue operations.Social implications – The findings of this article might improve disaster management during international humanitarian aid- and rescue operations and thus better the quality of life of individuals that are affected by disastrous events.Originality/value – The theoretical model of a civil contingencies agency management system for disaster aid was mostly confirmed and partly modified when being compared to empirical data and models from three previous case studies. Also, the qualitative approach to validating the theoretical model is, to the best knowledge of the authors, new.
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